Same...but the parents love it because they're cheap and easy to replace without data migration drama, and schools love 'em because of Google Classroom and Workspace functionality that Google gives to schools for peanuts while being checkbox compliant for bad-stuff-on-the-internet policies.

I'm grateful that I grew up learning to own my data...but I can appreciate that Google really made it seamless to not-worry about it.

But your copy and pasting [...]

I don't cut and paste, but I do quote.

Don't let any of the art or art history profs at the local college hear you say that, they'll probably turn violent!

I've talked to quite a few, I'm still in one piece ;-)

Yes, I agree that voluntary attendees are more likely to actively engage. If they've been lucky enough to learn the process at school or elsewhere, they will know how to proceed.

But Bones, it's AI. Just not as we know IT.

Sitting and Looking at Art as a form of appreciation is not really a form of engagement. Engagement means using your brain and actively performing tasks with a goal. That's not true if you're merely enjoying an image, a natural environment or even a movie, passively. It is true if you're an art critic preparing an essay in your head without using an LLM.

There are things that seem like appreciation but are actually engagement. For example, meditation. It isn't sitting still, it is concentrating for the purpose of total awareness and control of one's body and its automatic functions. It's quite stressful when you're a beginner.

Not at all. When it's rigged, it's not gambling,and the law agrees with me.

And that's why OP was not allowed to drive taxis at the time. Can you say the same for AIs?

Because automakers stopped giving car buyers some variant of the single-DIN/double-DIN dash cutout with standardized wire colors for a wire harness, so owners could put whatever they want into the dash if they didn't like the OEM offering. Carplay/AA was the loose successor to that; users had some agency with app selection, but GM has famously torpedoed that solution. Their arguments were so bad that it was almost transparent that they did it just so they could try and get subscription revenue from customers for functions Carplay provides out of the box.

Now, you might reasonably argue that a means of returning to user-replaceable infotainment head units is basically what you were getting at with "secure mount"...but my point is that these shouldn't be mutually exclusive. A stock stereo *should* have Carplay/AA, along with a means of replacing it if the user deems fit...but i do think it's reasonable to ask for both - base trims of econobox cars include Carplay; it shouldn't require aftermarket hardware to implement, and the owner shouldn't have to be stuck with a panhandling screen if they *don't* buy an aftermarket stereo.

Ah remember when the internet was good? ...Well, decent. ...Well, not complete shit anyway.

What do their employees even do apart from making it more shit anyway?

The high US insurance prices aren't funding a lot of medical research. The research is done around the world in universities and research institutes at a steady rate.

The US pharmaceuticals want a lot of money from Americans so they can *develop* the existing research into products and corner the market. That is not cheap, because the bar to entry is high. The bar to entry is high because when private corporations rush to market, they make mistakes. And they rush to market only so that they can beat their competitors.

Other countries don't mind waiting a little longer to see if the rushed drugs have side effects. This lowers their price. Because once the pharmaceuticals have served the impatient clients first, their marginal costs are almost zero and the added revenue is effectively free.

It's not gambling when a participant can act on insider information.It's a rigged system.

The comparison with casino games is not appropriate. The casino merely biases the outcome to give players a less than even chance of winning. That chance is low, but guaranteed to be nonzero, and the gamblers are able to agree to the conditions of the game in full.

Insider trading causes the "gambler" to be deliberately misled into thinking a particular game is being played when it is not.

3D printers are bought all around the world, and many countries do not have the lawful right to carry or manufacture personal weapons designed for killing people.

Bambu Lab wants to sell its products in the wider international markets - for the purpose of increased profitability of course. Therefore, it needs to optimize its offerings so that it doesn't fall afoul of the law in all countries of interest simultaneously.

Why would any of this require reducing benefits or even increasing working hours? These are orthogonal issues with privacy and sovereignty and national security.

Not sure that makes sense in this context: "each operator improvising its own survival plan in isolation" is the essence of open source. Scratch your own itch. Do it without endless coordination and compromises with other people being required. Explain and share your solution. If others like it, they can use it. If not, they can improvise their own.